MK-IX "Valentine" (USSR) - Revision history

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‎History

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‎Valentine with 6-pdr for the Soviet Union

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 == Description ==
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-The '''{{Specs|name}}''' is a premium gift rank {{Specs|rank}} Soviet medium tank {{Battle-rating}}. It was introduced during [[Update 1.95 "Northern Wind"]] as a special Valentine's Day vehicle. This is a Lend-Lease Valentine, shipped to the USSR by the British. The tank was made available to purchase in-game with Golden Eagles ({{GE}}) for specific mini-events like the [[wt:en/news/6583-special-valentine-s-day-en|2020]], [[wt:en/news/7042-special-lunar-new-year-and-valentine-s-day-en|2021]], and [[wt:en/news/7555-special-happy-valentine-s-day-en|2022]] Valentine's Day events.
+The '''{{Specs|name}}''' is a premium gift rank {{Specs|rank}} Soviet medium tank {{Battle-rating}}. It was introduced during [[Update 1.95 "Northern Wind"]] as a special Valentine's Day vehicle. This is a Lend-Lease Valentine, shipped to the USSR by the British. The tank was made available to purchase in-game with Golden Eagles ({{GE}}) for specific mini-events like the [[wt:en/news/6583-special-valentine-s-day-en|2020]], [[wt:en/news/7042-special-lunar-new-year-and-valentine-s-day-en|2021]] [[wt:en/news/7555-special-happy-valentine-s-day-en|2022]], and [[wt:en/news/8093-special-happy-valentine-s-day-en|2023]] Valentine's Day events.
 == General info ==

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 ==== Ammunition ====
-{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" width="100%"
+{{:6pdr OQF Mk.III (57 mm)/Ammunition|Shot Mk.5, Shot Mk.5 HV, Shot Mk.8, Shot Mk.9, Shell Mk.10}}
 ==== [[Ammo racks]] ====

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 ;Bibliography:
 * Axe, David. 2020. "To Russia With Love: The British Valentine tank in the Red Army." Medium. Last modified March 20, 2020. [https://medium.com/angry-planet/to-russia-with-love-76a2e4ca6c46 Website] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20220904171001/https://medium.com/angry-planet/to-russia-with-love-76a2e4ca6c46 Archive])
-* Law, Clive M. 2002. ''Making Tracks: Tank Production in Canada''. Ottawa, Ontario: Service Publications.
+* Law, Clive M. 2001. ''Making Tracks: Tank Production in Canada''. Ottawa, Ontario: Service Publications.
 * Newsome, Bruce Oliver. 2016. ''Valentine Infantry Tank 1938-45''. Great Britain: Osprey Publishing. Kindle.
 * Pasholok, Yuri. 2016. "Valentine Mods in the USSR." Tank Archives. Translated by Peter Samsonov. Last modified March 13, 2016. [http://www.tankarchives.ca/2016/03/valentine-mods-in-ussr.html Website] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20220904171015/http://www.tankarchives.ca/2016/03/valentine-mods-in-ussr.html Archive])

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 ===Canadian Production===
-[[File:Valentine tanks en route by rail to the Soviet Union.jpg|x250px|right|thumb|none|Canadian-produced Valentines from CPR company being loaded onto flat cars to be shipped to the Soviet Union.]]
+[[File:Valentine tanks en route by rail to the Soviet Union.jpg|x275px|right|thumb|none|Canadian-produced Valentines from CPR company being loaded onto flat cars to be shipped to the Soviet Union.]]
 Due to the positive reception of the Valentine tanks, the British decided that future Valentine tank deliveries to the Soviet Union would be fulfilled by Canada. With the Canadian Pacific Railway Company originally ordered to produce 300 Valentine tanks for the British and 488 for the Canadian army in June 1940, the British order was increased to 1,420 tanks in October 1941, with 30 of those tanks being Valentine VI slated for the Canadian army.<ref name="CliveLaw1">Law 2001, 11, 20</ref> Canadian tank industry, producing their first tank in 22 May 1941,<ref name="CliveLaw2">Law 2001, 12</ref> began their deliveries of Valentine VII tanks to the Soviet Union in November 1941, but their first shipments would not arrive until 1942. Deliveries continued until May 1943 upon completion of the Canadian orders, with 1,388 (2 were retained for British trial purposes) sent to the Soviet Union, and 1,208 arriving in the Soviet Union ports.<ref name="Zaloga_LL(3)">Zaloga 2017, 17-18</ref>
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 ===Valentine with 6-pdr for the Soviet Union===
 By late 1942, the Valentine has been upgraded to the Mark IX variant by Vickers with a [[6pdr OQF Mk.III (57 mm)|6-pdr]] gun, with the Soviets discovering the tank type in late December 1942. The Soviet would receive the first 6-pdr equipped Valentine in February 1943.<ref name="Pasholok_TankArchives_ValentineLong">Pasholok 2019</ref>
 Evaluations were carried out to determine if the Soviets should order more. Soviets praised the improved penetration power of the 6-pdr, but there was still lack of high-explosive shell production for the 6-pounder gun. The new turret used to equip the 6-pdr removed the coaxial machine gun and replaced the turret bomb thrower with external launchers, both changes that the Soviets were not enthusiastic about. These characteristics led to the Soviet to consider the Valentine IX moreso as a tank destroyer than a tank, and as such issued the Valentine IX out in heterogenous formations alongside older 2-pdr equipped Valentines that had better characteristics to fight infantry. The Valentine Mk IX issues would be addressed by American supplies and British development. The Americans, producing their own version of the 6-pounder as the [[M1 (57 mm)|57 mm M1 gun]], were also concerned about the lack of available HE shells and began to produce their own, supplying it to the Soviets for their Valentines alongside the 57 mm M1 equipped T48 GMC (which the Soviets would use as the [[SU-57]]). While the lack of coaxial machine gun was initially resolved with the installment of a BREN machine gun on an anti-aircraft pintle-mount, the coaxial machine gun mount would be reintroduced in the Valentine X variant with a new turret design, which would begin arriving in 1944. These resolutions, even just equipping the Valentines with high-explosive shells, allowed the Soviets to issue the 6-pdr equipped Valentines in homogenous formations without 2-pdr Valentines.<ref name="Pasholok_TankArchives_ValentineLong">Pasholok 2019</ref>
 Despite the initial flaws, the Soviets accepted the 6-pdr equipped Valentines and continued to request it in their Lend-Lease shipments. With Canada's production order finished, the British continued to produce Valentines in 1943 for Soviet Union deliveries, though the British were perplexed that the Soviet Union has continued interest in a tank that they have already considered obsolete.<ref name="Zaloga_LL(3)"/> 910 Valentine IX and X would be sent between 1943 and 1944, with 884 received by the Soviet Union.<ref name="Zaloga_LL(Tables)">Zaloga 2017, 78</ref> The number of Valentine tanks in Soviet inventory, as well as their overall positive combat performance, led to the Soviet Union deciding to end their light tank production and have the Valentines continue to fulfill their light tank role, with the light tank factories committing to [[SU-76M|SU-76]] production.<ref name="Zaloga_LL(3)"/>

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 ===Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union===
 As part of the Lend-Lease program, the Soviet Union requested tanks and other military supplies from American and Great Britain to replenish their losses during their defense against Nazi Germany. Evaluating the available tank models that can be sent to the Soviet Union, the Soviet liaison mission in Britain decided on two tanks, the [[MK-II_"Matilda"_(USSR)|Matilda]] and the Valentine tank.<ref name="Zaloga_LL(1)">Zaloga 2017, 9</ref> The shipments of Valentine tanks would be fulfilled by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, which began on September 28, 1941.<ref name="Pasholok_TankArchives_Valentine">Pasholok 2017</ref>
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 ===Canadian Production===
 Due to the positive reception of the Valentine tanks, the British decided that future Valentine tank deliveries to the Soviet Union would be fulfilled by Canada. With the Canadian Pacific Railway Company originally ordered to produce 300 Valentine tanks for the British and 488 for the Canadian army in June 1940, the British order was increased to 1,420 tanks in October 1941, with 30 of those tanks being Valentine VI slated for the Canadian army.<ref name="CliveLaw1">Law 2001, 11, 20</ref> Canadian tank industry, producing their first tank in 22 May 1941,<ref name="CliveLaw2">Law 2001, 12</ref> began their deliveries of Valentine VII tanks to the Soviet Union in November 1941, but their first shipments would not arrive until 1942. Deliveries continued until May 1943 upon completion of the Canadian orders, with 1,388 (2 were retained for British trial purposes) sent to the Soviet Union, and 1,208 arriving in the Soviet Union ports.<ref name="Zaloga_LL(3)">Zaloga 2017, 17-18</ref>
 ===Valentine with 6-pdr for the Soviet Union===
 By late 1942, the Valentine has been upgraded to the Mark IX variant by Vickers with a [[6pdr OQF Mk.III (57 mm)|6-pdr]] gun, with the Soviets discovering the tank type in late December 1942. The Soviet would receive the first 6-pdr equipped Valentine in February 1943.<ref name="Pasholok_TankArchives_ValentineLong">Pasholok 2019</ref>
 Evaluations were carried out to determine if the Soviets should order more. Soviets praised the improved penetration power of the 6-pdr, but there was still lack of high-explosive shell production for the 6-pounder gun. The new turret used to equip the 6-pdr removed the coaxial machine gun and replaced the turret bomb thrower with external launchers, both changes that the Soviets were not enthusiastic about. These characteristics led to the Soviet to consider the Valentine IX moreso as a tank destroyer than a tank, and as such issued the Valentine IX out in heterogenous formations alongside older 2-pdr equipped Valentines that had better characteristics to fight infantry. The Valentine Mk IX issues would be addressed by American supplies and British development. The Americans, producing their own version of the 6-pounder as the [[M1 (57 mm)|57 mm M1 gun]], were also concerned about the lack of available HE shells and began to produce their own, supplying it to the Soviets for their Valentines alongside the 57 mm M1 equipped T48 GMC (which the Soviets would use as the [[SU-57]]). While the lack of coaxial machine gun was initially resolved with the installment of a BREN machine gun on an anti-aircraft pintle-mount, the coaxial machine gun mount would be reintroduced in the Valentine X variant with a new turret design, which would begin arriving in 1944. These resolutions, even just equipping the Valentines with high-explosive shells, allowed the Soviets to issue the 6-pdr equipped Valentines in homogenous formations without 2-pdr Valentines.<ref name="Pasholok_TankArchives_ValentineLong">Pasholok 2019</ref>

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 ;Bibliography:
-* Axe, David. 2020. "To Russia With Love: The British Valentine tank in the Red Army." Medium. Last modified March 20, 2020. [https://medium.com/angry-planet/to-russia-with-love-76a2e4ca6c46 Website] ([Archive])
+* Axe, David. 2020. "To Russia With Love: The British Valentine tank in the Red Army." Medium. Last modified March 20, 2020. [https://medium.com/angry-planet/to-russia-with-love-76a2e4ca6c46 Website] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20220904171001/https://medium.com/angry-planet/to-russia-with-love-76a2e4ca6c46 Archive])
 * Law, Clive M. 2002. ''Making Tracks: Tank Production in Canada''. Ottawa, Ontario: Service Publications.
 * Newsome, Bruce Oliver. 2016. ''Valentine Infantry Tank 1938-45''. Great Britain: Osprey Publishing. Kindle.
-* Pasholok, Yuri. 2016. "Valentine Mods in the USSR." Tank Archives. Translated by Peter Samsonov. Last modified March 13, 2016. [http://www.tankarchives.ca/2016/03/valentine-mods-in-ussr.html Website] ([ Archive])
+* Pasholok, Yuri. 2016. "Valentine Mods in the USSR." Tank Archives. Translated by Peter Samsonov. Last modified March 13, 2016. [http://www.tankarchives.ca/2016/03/valentine-mods-in-ussr.html Website] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20220904171015/http://www.tankarchives.ca/2016/03/valentine-mods-in-ussr.html Archive])
-* Pasholok, Yuri. 2017. "British Tank for Soviet Infantry." Tank Archives. Translated by Peter Samsonov. Last modified November 04, 2017. [http://www.tankarchives.ca/2017/11/british-tank-for-soviet-infantry.html Website] ([ Archive])
+* Pasholok, Yuri. 2017. "British Tank for Soviet Infantry." Tank Archives. Translated by Peter Samsonov. Last modified November 04, 2017. [http://www.tankarchives.ca/2017/11/british-tank-for-soviet-infantry.html Website] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20220904171025/http://www.tankarchives.ca/2017/11/british-tank-for-soviet-infantry.html Archive])
-* Pasholok, Yuri. 2019. "Valentine With a Long Gun." Tank Archives. Translated by Peter Samsonov. Last modified January 26, 2019. [http://www.tankarchives.ca/2019/01/valentine-with-long-gun.html Website] ([ Archive])
+* Pasholok, Yuri. 2019. "Valentine With a Long Gun." Tank Archives. Translated by Peter Samsonov. Last modified January 26, 2019. [http://www.tankarchives.ca/2019/01/valentine-with-long-gun.html Website] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20220904171034/http://www.tankarchives.ca/2019/01/valentine-with-long-gun.html Archive])
 * Zaloga, Steven J. 2017. ''Soviet Lend-Lease Tanks of World War II''. Great Britain: Osprey Publishing. Kindle.

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 {{main|Valentine_IX#History|l1=History of the Valentine IX}}
-;Valentine in the USSR
+===Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union===
-Some Valentines were sent to the Soviet Union as part of the Lend-Lease program, most of the Valentines came from Canada's production lines. The Valentines saw use from the time of Battle of Moscow in 1941 all the way until the end of the war, though the Valentines saw use more as a second-line tank due to its relative weakness. It was criticized for its slow speed and weak gun but was liked for its small size, reliability, and armour protection and thus the Soviet Supreme Command continue asking for it and its production to continue until the end of the war.
+The first British tanks Lend-Lease shipment, carrying 20 Valentine tanks, arrived to the Soviet Union on October 11, 1941 at the port of Arkhangelsky as part of the Arctic convoys. A training program for the Valentines were created at the Kazan Courses of Armoured Force Improvement (KUKS) by October 15th, while the tanks themselves arrive to the location on October 28th. Alongside the second tank shipment of 120 Valentine tanks were 22 British men to help the Soviets organize repair workshops and other knowledge transfers about the tanks, which was concluded in November 11th. Training was expedited to a 15-day course, but 120 crew members were trained by the middle of November.<ref name="Zaloga_LL(1)"/><ref name="Pasholok_TankArchives_Valentine"/> By the end of 1941, 259 Valentine tanks have been sent to the Soviet Union, with 216 of them issued to combat formations.<ref name="Bruce_Valentine">Newsome 2016, Soviet Use</ref>
 == Media ==
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 * [[wikipedia:Valentine_tank|[Wikipedia] Valentine tank]]
 * [https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/gb/Tank_Infantry_MkIII_Valentine.php <nowiki>[Tanks Encyclopedia]</nowiki> Valentine, Infantry Tank Mk.III]
 {{Manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs}}
 {{USSR medium tanks}}
 {{USSR premium ground vehicles}}

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 ! ''Arcade''
-| rowspan="2" | 53 || rowspan="2" | -12°/+20° || rowspan="2" | ±180° || rowspan="2" | N/A || 15.23 || 21.08 || 25.60 || 28.31 || 30.12 || rowspan="2" | 5.20 || rowspan="2" | 4.60 || rowspan="2" | 4.24 || rowspan="2" | 4.00
+| rowspan="2" | 53 || rowspan="2" | -8°/+17° || rowspan="2" | ±180° || rowspan="2" | N/A || 15.2 || 21.1 || 25.6 || 28.3 || 30.1 || rowspan="2" | 5.20 || rowspan="2" | 4.60 || rowspan="2" | 4.24 || rowspan="2" | 4.00
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 ! ''Realistic''
-| 9.52 || 11.20 || 13.60 || 15.04 || 16.00
+| 9.5 || 11.2 || 13.6 || 15.0 || 16.0
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 |}